“Some people want to divide Nandigram 70-30 (ratio of Hindu, Muslim population), but I need 100 per cent support… No one can divide this place along religious lines,” stated West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday after submitting her nomination from the Assembly seat.
Accompanied by state TMC chief Subrata Bakshi and native social gathering leaders, Banerjee chief reached Haldia Sub-Divisional Officer’s workplace within the afternoon after holding a roadshow that was attended by hundreds of her supporters from Nandigram and different elements of Purba Medinipur district.
Exuding confidence of profitable the seat, the place she is going to tackle her former protege and BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari, Banerjee stated, “I have never returned empty-handed from here. Nandigram is not just a name, it is the name of a movement. Bhulte pari sobar naam, bhulbo nako Nandigram (I can forget everyone’s name, but can never forget Nandigram).”
The TMC chief filed the nomination papers at 1.48 pm. Her candidature was proposed by Sushma Maity — spouse of Bhagirath Maity who had gone lacking in the course of the Nandigram agitation, 14 years in the past — and Abdul Sammad, a senior chief of Bhumi Uchchhed Pratirodh Committee that fought in opposition to the land acquisition. The different two proposers had been block TMC presidents of Nandigram-I and Nandigram-II, Swadesh Ranjan Das and Mahadeb Bagh, respectively.